HL PLEASE READ THIS.
Aspartame is made of
1. Aspartic acid (which becomes aspartate in your body) - 40% by composition
Aspartate, a neurotransmitter, facilitates the transmission of information from neuron (nerve cell) to neuron, however, too much of it in the brain stimulates the neurons to death. The scariest thing about this is, you don't notice symptoms till at least 75% of your brain cells are gone.
2. Phenylalanine - 50%
This is an amino acid (basic protein compound) that is normally found in your brain. However, eating aspartame, especially together with carbohydrates, can lead to excessive levels of phenylalanine in your brain. So what? This can reduce the levels of serotonin, a hormone which regulates sleep and is also a neurotransmitter. Then you get sleep problems, anger, anxiety, and emotional disorders such as depression. Can also cause schizophrenia and make you more susceptible to seizures.
3. Methanol - 10%
Poison alert! Methanol is oxidised into formic acid and formaldehyde in your body. Formic acid leads to a rise in blood acidity, and formaldehyde, a toxin, allergen and carcinogen, is what we used to "fix" tissues for biology, or you can say to "preserve" the dead fish or whatever animal. I'm unable to check right now (dinner cooking downstairs) but IIRC formaldehyde is the main preservative used to "embalm" the cadavers for med students to do dissection. If you've been to the Body Works exhibition you'll remember there's a funny smell in the air - that's the formaldehyde. It stinks! And if you get some of it on your finger, the skin and underlying nerves will die. At least, that's what my tutor told me d:)
From Wikipedia - "An aqueous solution of formaldehyde can be useful as a disinfectant as it kills most bacteria and fungi (including their spores). It is also used as a preservative in vaccinations. Formaldehyde solutions are applied topically in medicine to dry the skin, such as in the treatment of warts. Many aquarists use formaldehyde as a treatment for the parasite ichthyophthirius."
Eew! As a preservative in vaccinations???
Symptoms of methanol poisoning include vision problems, headaches, dizziness, nausea, queasiness (did I get this word right?), weakness, numbness, memory lapses.
SO..... in WHAT can you find Aspartame?
Sugar substitutes eg. Equal, NutraSweet - use these to kill ants in your kitchen, hah!
Diet drinks eg. Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi
"Sugarless sweets" eg. Lakerol, Ricola, Eclipse (DH's current fav)
Chewing gum
Some brands of yogurt
Some vitamins (Redoxon!) and cough drops
So always check the INGREDIENTS on what you buy, "Sugar-free" may not necessarily be healthy, nor "Diet" foods and beverages. Don't eat or drink anything that has "Artificial Sweetener" on its ingredient list. Less calories but more toxins, is not the way to go.
(And they always taste very artificial.)
THE UNIVERSE IS LISTENING.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
步入考试的忧虑
女儿上了小一，我们也开始为华文而烦恼。毕竟用华语跟孩子们沟通并不是我们家庭的习惯。
虽然她幼稚园的老师教得非常好，当时对华文字的认识与发音都从零而进步了许多，还是担心她应付不了小学的华文。
当然临时抱佛脚是没用的，可是这段期间我猛地在帮她补习。
喔！发现我真的对她不耐烦。她也常不专心，放空。竟然还在我解释的时候，用铅笔当着我的面，画画！
我必须告诉自己，别气，她只是个小孩子，心里当然想着玩耍。不能对她有太过分的要求。
我也是过来人，小学的华文根本就是一头污水。
一直到我开始收听华语电台，学唱华语歌，才开始对华文有更深厚的兴趣。
这几年来，也是靠收看台湾许许多多的节目， 因而扩大了自己的知识。真后悔，多希望小时候就能够与华文有更多的接触。
好头痛啊！希望，他们不会重蹈我覆辙。
虽然她幼稚园的老师教得非常好，当时对华文字的认识与发音都从零而进步了许多，还是担心她应付不了小学的华文。
当然临时抱佛脚是没用的，可是这段期间我猛地在帮她补习。
喔！发现我真的对她不耐烦。她也常不专心，放空。竟然还在我解释的时候，用铅笔当着我的面，画画！
我必须告诉自己，别气，她只是个小孩子，心里当然想着玩耍。不能对她有太过分的要求。
我也是过来人，小学的华文根本就是一头污水。
一直到我开始收听华语电台，学唱华语歌，才开始对华文有更深厚的兴趣。
这几年来，也是靠收看台湾许许多多的节目， 因而扩大了自己的知识。真后悔，多希望小时候就能够与华文有更多的接触。
好头痛啊！希望，他们不会重蹈我覆辙。
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
The Dangers of Excessive Childhood Vaccinations
Got this from Mercola.com
By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
"I find it interesting that there exist an incredible double standard when it comes to our evidence versus theirs. The proponents of vaccination safety can just say they are safe, without any supporting evidence what-so-ever, and it is to be accepted without question.
Yet, let me, or anyone else, suggest that excessive vaccination can increase the risk of not only autism, but also schizophrenia and neurodegenerative diseases, and they will scream like banshees – Where is the evidence? Where is the evidence?
When we produce study after study, they always proclaim them to be insufficient evidence or unacceptable studies.
More often than not, they just completely ignore the evidence. This is despite the fact that we produce dozens or even hundreds of studies that not only demonstrate the link clinically and scientifically, but also clearly show the mechanism by which the damage is being done -- even on a molecular level. These include cell culture studies, mixed cell cultures, organotypic tissue studies, in vivo animal studies using multiple species and even human studies. To the defenders of vaccine safety -- our evidence is never sufficient and, if we face reality -- never will be."
I shudder whenever I think of those 5-in-1 and 6-in-1 vaccines. To give a vax is bad enough, but to give ALL these live and attenuated viruses AND their toxin-laden preservatives and additives into the young, young body of an infant younger than 6 months old, and THEN to repeat the darn thing at least twice over the course of the next year or so?? I wouldn't do it to myself, much less imagine doing it to my kids.
I confess that there was a time when I took all of this for granted, which is why Ray has got all her jabs ON TIME up to about 9 months of age (but never the 5 or 6-in-1). It MUST be okay because
1. it's been done for so many years
2. the government says it's ok
3. I had them and I'M fine
4. my parents are nurses and they know what's best
5. (this comes as an afterthought) I don't know anyone or their kids who has autism, ADHD, dyslexia etc. Heck I'd probably never even HEARD of these disorders at the time.
Then I met the right people, who taught me to think for myself and question the "facts" and BOOM! it all changed. (So much for the "thinking-out-of-the-box" I was supposed to have learnt in school.) I learnt to trust my natural instinct (heh!) and make my own deductions based on my own research (ok I didn't do any studies but I read the studies of others).
It's tough converting the people around me. Most of them have the exact same mindset that I used to have (see points 1 - 4 above), and old habits die hard. Few like to break out of their comfort zone. Even fewer dare to challenge the powers that be, in Singapore. In the end, I'm satisfied if I can at least have the final say over my own children. Thanks to Amy, who really taught me that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
"I find it interesting that there exist an incredible double standard when it comes to our evidence versus theirs. The proponents of vaccination safety can just say they are safe, without any supporting evidence what-so-ever, and it is to be accepted without question.
Yet, let me, or anyone else, suggest that excessive vaccination can increase the risk of not only autism, but also schizophrenia and neurodegenerative diseases, and they will scream like banshees – Where is the evidence? Where is the evidence?
When we produce study after study, they always proclaim them to be insufficient evidence or unacceptable studies.
More often than not, they just completely ignore the evidence. This is despite the fact that we produce dozens or even hundreds of studies that not only demonstrate the link clinically and scientifically, but also clearly show the mechanism by which the damage is being done -- even on a molecular level. These include cell culture studies, mixed cell cultures, organotypic tissue studies, in vivo animal studies using multiple species and even human studies. To the defenders of vaccine safety -- our evidence is never sufficient and, if we face reality -- never will be."
I shudder whenever I think of those 5-in-1 and 6-in-1 vaccines. To give a vax is bad enough, but to give ALL these live and attenuated viruses AND their toxin-laden preservatives and additives into the young, young body of an infant younger than 6 months old, and THEN to repeat the darn thing at least twice over the course of the next year or so?? I wouldn't do it to myself, much less imagine doing it to my kids.
I confess that there was a time when I took all of this for granted, which is why Ray has got all her jabs ON TIME up to about 9 months of age (but never the 5 or 6-in-1). It MUST be okay because
1. it's been done for so many years
2. the government says it's ok
3. I had them and I'M fine
4. my parents are nurses and they know what's best
5. (this comes as an afterthought) I don't know anyone or their kids who has autism, ADHD, dyslexia etc. Heck I'd probably never even HEARD of these disorders at the time.
Then I met the right people, who taught me to think for myself and question the "facts" and BOOM! it all changed. (So much for the "thinking-out-of-the-box" I was supposed to have learnt in school.) I learnt to trust my natural instinct (heh!) and make my own deductions based on my own research (ok I didn't do any studies but I read the studies of others).
It's tough converting the people around me. Most of them have the exact same mindset that I used to have (see points 1 - 4 above), and old habits die hard. Few like to break out of their comfort zone. Even fewer dare to challenge the powers that be, in Singapore. In the end, I'm satisfied if I can at least have the final say over my own children. Thanks to Amy, who really taught me that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
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